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Introduction of what kinds of the functions poverty and the poor would bring to the society。

The Uses of Poverty

• 1.Positive Functions of "Government Machine"
• 2.Poverty
• 3.The tools to meet what the society expects(they might be the cost or the benefits)
• 4.A series of positive effects of poverty on society
  • 1.The object of exploitation by the rich
  • 2.Occupations provider
• 5.Introduction of what kinds of the functions poverty and the poor would bring to the society
• 1.Introduction
• 2.The Functions of Poverty
  • 1.Filling the vacancy of "dirty works"
    • Cleaning and collecting garbage
    • Receiving low page
    • Forcing them to work without Negative Income Tax during a certain period of a year
  • 2.Participation in economic activities serving the rich
    • Domestics
    • Property and Sales taxes
    • Medical Practice
  • 3.Providing occupations
    • Police
    • Drugs
    • Therapeutist
  • 4.Extending the economic utility of commodities
    • Day-old food, clothes
    • Deteriorating automobiles and buildings
    • Incomes for doctors, lawyers
  • 5.Scapegoat to uphold the legitimacy of conventional norms
    • Accusal of being lazy, spendthrift, dishonest and monogamy
    • Living Proof
  • 6.Gaining more happiness and participating more in unlimited illegal activities
    • sex
    • alcohol
    • narcotics
  • 7.Providing cultural capacity
    • Blues
    • Negro spirituals
    • Country music
    • Beatles
  • 8.A reference for the status compatison
  • 9. Aiding the upword mobility of groups just above them
    • House renting in the slums
    • Drug selling
  • 10. Working motivation
  • 11.Bearers of social progress risk
    • Urban renewal projects
    • Expressways
    • Sodiers
  • 12.Stabilizing the political process
  • 13.Ensuring the operation of laissez-faire economic ideology
• 3.The alternatives
  • Raise wages
  • Cultural productivity change
  • Status unchanged
  • Maintain contribution to class mobility and social and political progess
  • Getting rid of poverty in the form of costs borne by the rich